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Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Philip Rieff Obituary
Best known in scholarly circles for three early works on Freud and culture
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Never Mind the Flag, Save the Constitution
The First Amendment exists to forestall the instatement of taboos.
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BBC Anoints MCB and Bari Yet Again
Head of self-appointed unelected ‘Council’ called a ‘leading Muslim’ and respectfully quoted.
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Munira Mirza: Nobody Elected Khan or Tanweer
But they thought elected governments had less claim to act on behalf of people than they did.
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Death Penalty for not Praying in Somalia
Somali Muslims who fail to perform daily prayers will be killed in accordance with Koranic law.
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The Hidden Power: David Addington
The New Paradigm rests on a reading of the Constitution that few legal scholars share.
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Iranian Journalist Urges Freeing Political Prisoners
Akbar Ganji says Jahanbegloo, Mansoor Osanloo, Ali Akbar Moussavi Khoeini should be freed.
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Lecturing Skills
Not everyone has them, Jonathan Wolff points out.
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Jon Wiener on a Lesson from Churchill Inquiry
Whatever the political background, falsification matters.
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Scott McLemee on University Presses and Blogs
Bloggers are no longer the equivalent of ham-radio operators.
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T Shirt Sellers Fined Under Public Order Act
‘The language was deemed to cause harassment, distress or alarm.’
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T Shirt Maker Accuses Police of Overreacting
Police said the shirts were distressing the public.
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Iran Urged to Release Ramin Jahanbegloo
‘This is difficult to understand since all he goes on about is Hegel.’
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Richmond Library Gets Makeover
Best hope of stopping Britain’s 154-year tradition of free libraries from becoming extinct.
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Iran Ignores Canada Over Jahanbegloo Case
Iran sent a delegation to UN HRC headed by prosecutor responsible for Kazemi’s arrest and detention.
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Jahanbegloo Barred From Access to a Lawyer
Official linked arrest of Jahanbegloo to US efforts to start ‘soft revolution’ in Iran.
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Fighting Less Stressful Than Peacekeeping
Peacekeepers sometimes have to stand by and watch horrors.
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No MMR Vaccine Link to Autism
McGill University study finds mercury-based vaccines do not lead to increased risk of autism.
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Pope Pitches Yet Another Fit About Gay Marriage
On account of how it will destroy the family.